I’m trying to schedule a big giveaway once each calendar quarter (or thereabouts), so it’s time for our next one.

Today’s prize package consists of a plethora of various gardening, cooking, preserving, foraging, and homesteading items. Each item was carefully chosen for a well-rounded prize package at over $343 ARV!!!

Most of the items are provided by today’s host bloggers and sponsors from their online stores, books they wrote, and a DVD one of them created. The rest of us pooled our money together to purchase items from Amazon, local stores, and even more items from Pantry Paratus to bring you this FABULOUS prize package.

With warm sunny days just around the corner, I’m looking forward to one of my all-time favorite hobbies (other than gardening): bird watching. In warm weather, I love to sit on our covered front porch and watch the birds at and near the feeders. We’ve even had the pleasure of being entertained by a crazy bird.

We don’t have any chickens, but many of you may have chickens and enjoy watching them move about and scratch for food. We even have something in today’s giveaway package for the chickens.

Sitting outside and enjoying the beauty God created – the birds, chickens, wildlife, and plants – can be so relaxing, almost therapeutic, similar to gardening.

Speaking of gardening, I’m very excited to be able to include Susan Vinskofski’s new e-book The Art of Gardening: Building Your Soil. Continue reading this post for more information on it.

With that in mind, we start the third and final spring bonanza giveaway.

If there’s one common theme buzzing around on gardening and homesteading blogs right now it would have to be SEED PLANTING. After a long and exceptionally cold winter across the nation, we’re all aching to get our gardens growing. If that’s true for you then you’ll love today’s giveaway.

March is finally here, and I can’t wait to see what lies ahead, both on our plot of land and here on Your Gardening Friend!

March means spring, and spring means gardening begins. And, to top it off, March marks another blog anniversary for Your Gardening Friend!

Spring is a great time to start some warm weather traditions. Traditions are important no matter what they are. Wanna know what I do annually to celebrate spring?

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My Annual Spring Tradition

Each spring I turn into a giddy gardener frolicking through the neighborhood [and down the rows of cubicles at work] with my little flower-girl basket. Since it’s too early to pick flowers, hands full of composted cow manure and garden seeds are showered on everyone in my pathway!

Sadly, I have neighbors and coworkers who don’t appreciate my gracious gift of nutrient dense manure flying towards them or being pelted with garden seeds.

After being pulled aside – and many heated debates – I was persuaded to change my spring and gardening celebration to something more …“civilized”: a calm and quiet garden giveaway.

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For all the giddy gardeners out there like me, don’t worry! Today’s giveaway includes some amazing creatures that make amazing manure, except with worms it’s called castings. We’ve also got a great book (ebook or paperback) being offered from my friend Melissa K Norris. Last, but not least, is an Amazon gift card.

And the timing of this gift card couldn’t be any better. The giveaway ends before Thanksgiving, which means the winner will be able to do all kinds of Christmas shopping with it.

Do you know how many compost worms you could buy with $400?! I bet that’s EXACTLY what you were thinking, too. Right?

Unlike last month’s giveaway, this giveaway will not run the full month. It ends Monday, November 18th @ 11:59pm PST. So enter now while it’s on your mind.
Follow these instructions to enter for a chance to win.1. If I won a $400 Amazon gift card I might purchase this Excalibur Dehydrator.

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